Fascism is associated with one or more of the following characteristics: a very high degree of nationalism, economic corporatism, and, after attaining political control of a country, a powerful, dictatorial state that views the nation as superior to the individuals or groups composing it.
So cut out all that drama queen eye rolling, and quit supporting Bush. He's a fascist.
Nice false dichotemy there. There's a threshold effect in place with income. For someone on minimum wage, a $20k pay increase would be a reason to switch jobs instantly. For someone who's already earning six figures, $20k isn't life-changing, and is probably not enough incentive to switch from a pleasant job to an awful one.
Throw in multiple reflections (the typical way your signal gets to you) and you don't have "tracking" in the sort of sense that GPS does - so stop going on about it a if it does.
With better equipment and techniques, there's no reason that couldn't be improved, and while it won't be pinpoint, it will be near enough to cause privacy concerns.
One of my early creative writing assignments. I have no idea how I managed to complete that degree.
Sonnet Strip
They may be superheroes,
but their sex lives are a mess.
So Batman buggers Robin
and Green Lantern his fist.
As the Phantom mounts Hero,
he mutters to himself
what the devil's into Diana
but she's not sure herself.
Superman at first seems relatively normal,
but his premature emmission blows Lois to bits.
When it's all over
Boy Wonders if he can stand,
while Greenie's main problem is warts on his hand.
The Phantom's no stud, so Hero is ok,
but Devil and Di are nowhere to be found
and Lois, of course,
is sprayed all over the ground.
Or it means that polar bears will die out and another animal will fill its niche.
It is the niche which is dying. Polar bears need that niche to survive, so they will die out too.
The world is being changed by our activities, and polar bears will be one of the early high-profile victims of those changes.
it has about as much effect on armor piercing ability as dipping the bullets in chicken blood.
Sort of. Teflon is applied to slugs with hardened cores to prevent the cores damaging the barrel of the weapon. Its not the teflon which makes them armor piercing, its the hardened core.
Imagine having DRM in Windows and Linux (as Linus has stated he sees nothing wrong in it).
It doesn't matter what Linus thinks. If enough people disagree, they'll fork Linux and a non-DRM version will be created. There may eventually be a DRM'd Linux, but it'll be just another distro in the crowd.
I wonder if they ever thought about the Quality of the music they sell??
It's not just the quality of the music, it's the quality of the entire industry. I used to buy 3-4 CDs a month, but I'm so disgusted by the behaviour of the music industry representatives that I now only buy from local bands. I get a lot of good stuff from http://www.archive.org/audio/etree.php too - there's more than 29,000 tracks there.
Then nobody should be complaining about the graphics being separated.
I don't think many people are complaining about the moving of the UI layer from the kernel. Its more a complaint about Microsoft's inconsistency on the issue.
Me, I think the slow PCI/AGP bus issues that used to be a bottleneck in computers of the NT4/Win2K era have now vanished, and even low end new systems will be fast enough to be responsive. A lot will depend on Microsoft's implementation though, and judging from their minimum hardware requirements, they're not aiming for efficiency.
but I don't consider my own very intuitive; I can't figure out what its purpose is.
You're a geek, so just use the process of elimination. All you have to do is remove your nipples, then wait and see what stops working.
It's not rocket science...
Microsoft does compete - every time they release a new Windows/Office version they have to compete against the installed base of older Windows/Office versions.
That's why they introduced Product Activation. So a product which never wears out becomes unusable at the same rate as the hardware it is installed on. It is their way of avoiding competition with older installed products.
In my several years of professional IT, I've been shocked (and, at times, guilty as well) by how many times smart people will argue, over something that is easily investigable, but whom both are too lazy or full of themselves to actually do said investigation.
Yeah, I'll pay that one. Actually, I've been enjoying the discussion on "dihydrogen monoxide" too. I wonder how many of the posters kidding about its hazards have actually thought about it. How many people have been killed by water this year, and are killed by water every year?
Just to nitpick, things don't burst into flame without ignition sources.
Tell that to Rudolph Diesel. As anyone refilling oxygen cylinders will confirm, even tiny traces of grease on the threads of the cylinder can ignite and explode when the cylinders are pressurised.
politicians seem to have no grasp on cause-and-effect regardless of age.
No, that's just ordinary sociopathic behaviour. Politicians are aware of cause-and-effect, but don't have emotional reactions to the consequences.
You may be right in that being the difference between the children and the chimps though - the child's goal may have been to please the experimenter, while the chimp's goal was to get the prize
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Fascism and corporatism are closely linked. So cut out all that drama queen eye rolling, and quit supporting Bush. He's a fascist.
Money may not buy happiness, but poverty sucks.
Nice false dichotemy there. There's a threshold effect in place with income. For someone on minimum wage, a $20k pay increase would be a reason to switch jobs instantly. For someone who's already earning six figures, $20k isn't life-changing, and is probably not enough incentive to switch from a pleasant job to an awful one.
login to one of their routers and kill internet access
So being told to sabotage your own network is insightful? No wonder so many companies want to outsource.
Throw in multiple reflections (the typical way your signal gets to you) and you don't have "tracking" in the sort of sense that GPS does - so stop going on about it a if it does.
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Network positioning through triangulation and signal strength was good enough to locate phones to within 100 mteres using ad-hoc gear five years ago. http://www.computerworld.com/mobiletopics/mobile/
With better equipment and techniques, there's no reason that couldn't be improved, and while it won't be pinpoint, it will be near enough to cause privacy concerns.
One of my early creative writing assignments. I have no idea how I managed to complete that degree.
Sonnet Strip
They may be superheroes,
but their sex lives are a mess.
So Batman buggers Robin
and Green Lantern his fist.
As the Phantom mounts Hero,
he mutters to himself
what the devil's into Diana
but she's not sure herself.
Superman at first seems relatively normal,
but his premature emmission blows Lois to bits.
When it's all over
Boy Wonders if he can stand,
while Greenie's main problem is warts on his hand.
The Phantom's no stud, so Hero is ok,
but Devil and Di are nowhere to be found
and Lois, of course,
is sprayed all over the ground.
1. Take off your clothes
I'm doing this ok so far, but a lot of people in my office are looking and pointing. One woman has vomited in a potplant.
2. Look between your legs
Whoa, look at that! That thing is HUGE!
Maybe I should exercise a bit more. [Shifts beer gut out of the way] Yup, there it is. [Shakes hips] Well, isn't that the cutest thing!
3. Something there? You're probably male
Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. Of course, the beard, hairy chest and deep voice were good hints, but you can never be too sure. Thanks!
Or it means that polar bears will die out and another animal will fill its niche.
It is the niche which is dying. Polar bears need that niche to survive, so they will die out too.
The world is being changed by our activities, and polar bears will be one of the early high-profile victims of those changes.
The goal of science is to provide answers, not to make decisions for people.
Science doesn't have a goal. It's a method, not an entity.
The people practicing science have goals, and their goals often include helping to solve social, political and ethical problems.
it has about as much effect on armor piercing ability as dipping the bullets in chicken blood.
Sort of. Teflon is applied to slugs with hardened cores to prevent the cores damaging the barrel of the weapon. Its not the teflon which makes them armor piercing, its the hardened core.
Passenger engine standards require jets to be able to handle 8 successive 1.5 pound airstrikes from birds.
Imagine having DRM in Windows and Linux (as Linus has stated he sees nothing wrong in it).
It doesn't matter what Linus thinks. If enough people disagree, they'll fork Linux and a non-DRM version will be created. There may eventually be a DRM'd Linux, but it'll be just another distro in the crowd.
I wonder if they ever thought about the Quality of the music they sell??
It's not just the quality of the music, it's the quality of the entire industry. I used to buy 3-4 CDs a month, but I'm so disgusted by the behaviour of the music industry representatives that I now only buy from local bands. I get a lot of good stuff from http://www.archive.org/audio/etree.php too - there's more than 29,000 tracks there.
Try actually reading my post.
Then nobody should be complaining about the graphics being separated.
I don't think many people are complaining about the moving of the UI layer from the kernel. Its more a complaint about Microsoft's inconsistency on the issue.
Me, I think the slow PCI/AGP bus issues that used to be a bottleneck in computers of the NT4/Win2K era have now vanished, and even low end new systems will be fast enough to be responsive. A lot will depend on Microsoft's implementation though, and judging from their minimum hardware requirements, they're not aiming for efficiency.
but I don't consider my own very intuitive; I can't figure out what its purpose is.
You're a geek, so just use the process of elimination. All you have to do is remove your nipples, then wait and see what stops working.
It's not rocket science...
Microsoft does compete - every time they release a new Windows/Office version they have to compete against the installed base of older Windows/Office versions.
That's why they introduced Product Activation. So a product which never wears out becomes unusable at the same rate as the hardware it is installed on. It is their way of avoiding competition with older installed products.
In my several years of professional IT, I've been shocked (and, at times, guilty as well) by how many times smart people will argue, over something that is easily investigable, but whom both are too lazy or full of themselves to actually do said investigation.
Got any evidence for that?
Note: It's time to replace the chip in subject #766577's head.
You're going to put it back on his shoulder?
Good enough?
Yeah, I'll pay that one. Actually, I've been enjoying the discussion on "dihydrogen monoxide" too. I wonder how many of the posters kidding about its hazards have actually thought about it. How many people have been killed by water this year, and are killed by water every year?
thousands of civilians still being targeted for toture by Saddam.
Are they the same thirty thousand civilians GW said have been killed since the invasion?
BTW - I am a qualified risk manager.
Me too.
What happens to the risk of falling into a hole in the ground when you fill the hole to the brim?
Just to nitpick, things don't burst into flame without ignition sources.
Tell that to Rudolph Diesel. As anyone refilling oxygen cylinders will confirm, even tiny traces of grease on the threads of the cylinder can ignite and explode when the cylinders are pressurised.
I plan to raise my children the same way.
Still struggling with that "redundant step" concept are we?
The study says they're from a Scottish nursury school.
Ginger kids. Should've guessed...
politicians seem to have no grasp on cause-and-effect regardless of age.
No, that's just ordinary sociopathic behaviour. Politicians are aware of cause-and-effect, but don't have emotional reactions to the consequences.
You may be right in that being the difference between the children and the chimps though - the child's goal may have been to please the experimenter, while the chimp's goal was to get the prize